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 p.1 #11 · Leica Noctilux-M 50mm f/1.2 ASPH. $1000 off B&H | |
RexGig0 wrote:
This lower price did prompt me to stop, and think, seriously. $8K US would be at the extreme high end of achievable, without having to pay interest to a credit card company. I would, however, have to rearrange some financial priorities, in somewhat-painful ways. Then, realizing that the shiny black paint finish would not wear, to show brass, as would be inevitable, as the hood was repeatedly affixed and dismounted, became a factor. My Leica cameras are black chrome, which would not match the lens. It would make more sense to acquire a pre-owned black chrome Re-Edition Noctilux f/1.2, which would match my general pattern of buying well-preserved, pre-owned M lenses, starting with my first M-mount lens acquisition, my beloved Summilux-M 50mm ASPH, 11891.
I am, thus far, fiercely devoted to my Summilux-M 50mm ASPH, 11891, acquired in April 2018. There are others like it, but this one is mine. This lens may have saved my desire to continue to photograph people, or, perhaps, to continue to photograph anything, at all, after seven-plus years of photographing evidence of human inhumanity to fellow humans. (Evidentiary/forensic/crime scene photography, with an emphasis on living, breathing, traumatized victims, at “action macro” range.) I have added other 50mm M lenses, but, each has had to “plead its case,” as it were.
Then, there is the elephant in my next room, mere steps away, my Cosina Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.0 Asherical VM, with an external aesthetic appearance not unlike the 1966 Noctilux, and optics not unlike a more modern Noctilux, though its visual signature stands on its own.
There, I think that I just “talked myself out” of buying a marked-down black paint Noctilux 50/1.2.  ...Show more →
Not sure if it helps but I am even fine with my first Leica lens I bought used in 2014 - the 50/2.0 Summicron-M Version V. To date, it remains one of the sharpest lenses with good contrast even wide open I currently have. If I want to go faster - either for low light, DoF needs in a specific scenery - I grab either my Canon 50/1.2 LTM or my Nikkor 50/1.4 S.C. LTM lens. Both LTM lenses can be purchased for < $500 and provide me with a great bokeh and some vintage lens effects (like vignetting) I prefer to see in this kind of compositions. Therefore I don't even see me using a 50 mm Summilux lens. It would be redundant for me at this point. This is said from a purely user specific POV - I am not a collector of less common or too expensive lenses.
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